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Outreach

outreach at kibworthOur Outreach team takes archaeology workshops and talks out to schools and colleges in the county. It also runs Masterclasses and workshops on campus and in the department. We've also worked with the army on Project Nightingale at Caerwent. Find out more on what we do! And hear about the places we have visited last year, read some testimonials, and see what we can bring to your school to help bring the past alive!

University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

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Contact the School

School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

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Publications

Illustrations recently completed for major books and publications

2007. Artwork for Graham Shipley for a book entitled Power and Landscape in the Macedonian Peloponnese. Artwork for the Geographical author, Pseudo-Skylax.

2006/2007. Artwork for a forthcoming book by Clive Ruggles. Astronomy in Prehistoric Europe

2006 - Season drawings for Lin Foxhall for the Bova Marina Project, Calabria, and Southern Italy,

2006. Completed illustrations for David Mattingly for the Wadi Faynan Project

2006. Completed illustrations for Simon James for a book on Iron Age Ditches.

Illustrations published in major books and publications

2006. The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Edited by Graham Shipley, John Vanderspoel, David Mattingly and Lin Foxhall. Cambridge University Press.

2006. From Constantine to Charlemagne. An Archaeology of Italy 300-800, Neil Christie, Ashgate Publishing Limited.

2006. Evidence for the Dissolution of Thorney Abbey. John Thomas, Medieval Archaeology 50, Society of Medieval Archaeology.

2005. (December) – Produced two reconstructions for David Mattingly on the Garamantes people, to be used in a German TV programme about the Archaeology of Libya. Shown in December 2006.

2004. Ethnography and Archaeology in Upland Mediterranean Spain. Neil Christie and Paul Beavitt, Leicester Archaeology Monograph No 12.

2004. The Roman Fort Gateway painting from the Alchester Project, directed by Eberhard Sauer, was also used on Time Team, Archaeology Programme on C4. 'Syndale – The Roman Fort that wasn’t there', 1 February 2004.

2003. The Archaeology of Religious Hatred, Eberhard Sauer, Tempus Publishing.

2003. The Archaeology of Fazzan, Volume 1, Synthesis, David Mattingly, Society for Libyan Studies and Department of Antiquities.

2002. Archaeology: An Introduction, Fourth Edition, Page 158, Alchester Fort Gateway reconstruction. Kevin Greene, Routledge.

2002. Caractonium: Roman Catterick and its hinterland. Excavations and research, 1958-1997. Part II P.R. Wilson, Pages 202, 205, 207, 211, CBA Research Report 129.

2001. Current Archaeology, number 173, Article on the Alchester Project, Eberhard Sauer.

2000. The Archaeology of Rutland Water. Nicholas J Cooper, Leicester Archaeology Monograph No. 6.

2000. Art and Society in Fourth Century Britain, Villa Mosaics in Context. Sarah Scott, Oxford University School of Archaeology, Monograph No. 53.

1999. Astronomy in Prehistoric Britain and Ireland. Clive Ruggles, Yale University Press.

1999. Archaeoastronomy: The Journal of Astronomy in Culture, Volume XIV, number 2, Clive Ruggles, University of Texas Press.

1998. Industrial Archaeology Principles and Practice. Marilyn Palmer and Peter Neaverson, Routledge.

1998. The Etruscans. Graeme Barker and Tom Rasmussen, Blackwell Publishers.

1996. Greek Law in its Political Setting, Lin Foxhall and ADE Lewis, Oxford University Press.

1996. Towns in Transition, Urban Evolution in Late Antiquity and the Early Medieval Ages, N Christie and ST Loseby, Scholar Press/Ashgate Publishing Company.

1996. Farming the Desert, The UNESCO Libyan Valleys Survey, volumes 1 & 2, Graeme Barker and David Mattingly, UNESCO Publishing.

1995. A Mediterranean Valley, Landscape Archaeology and Annales History in the Biferno Valley, Graeme Barker, Leicester University Press.

1995. Tripolitania, David J Mattingly, Batsford.